Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Kate HullFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Director for Senate HELP & Subcommittee on Aging, Sr. Legislative Assistant, Senator Tim Hutchinson, Legislative Staff, Senator Bill Cohen6 filingsthrough 2026
Kirsten ChadwickFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
The filings
The 20 most recent of 23 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: action-now-initiative.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
5 filings
$150K on those filings
Firearms/Guns/Ammunition
FIR
3 filings
$135K on those filings
Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice
LAW
2 filings
$90K on those filings
Medicare/Medicaid
MMM
2 filings
$60K on those filings
Gaming/Gambling/Casino
GAM
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Housing
HOU
1 filing
$40K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
119th Congress
Same Care, Lower Cost Act
2 filingsthrough 2025
H.R. 2031114th CongressAnti-Swatting Act of 20152 filingsthrough 2015
H.R. 6644119th Congress21st Century ROAD to Housing Act1 filingthrough 2026
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
6 filings
through 2026
William Kirk BlalockFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Confidential Assistant to the Sec US Dept of Education, Special Assistant to the President, Deputy Director of Public Liaison, The White House6 filingsthrough 2026
Michael ChappellFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Press Aide/Office Manager to Rep. Roger Wicker, Deputy Chief of Staff, Rep. Pickering, Special Projects Director, Rep. Pickering5 filingsthrough 2026
Brett TolmanThe Tolman Group5 filingsthrough 2020
Patrick CliftonFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Asst. to the President for Operations, Executive Office of the President, President Donald J. Trump (17-19)4 filingsthrough 2026
Jacobus VreeburgFierce Government RelationsCovered position: House Homeland Sec. Cmte.-Staff Asst., Dep. Parl., Parl., Rep. Messer-Leg. Dir., House Rep.Policy Cmte.-Staff Dir., NSC-Staff Officer, Acting Dep. Exec. Sec., Dep. Exec. Sec., HouseRep. Conference-Policy Dir., Rep. Stefanik-Policy Dir., USUN-W-Dir.4 filingsthrough 2026
William PiperFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Special Assistant, Senator McConnell4 filingsthrough 2025
James WilliamsFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Sen. Finance Cmte: Sr Tax/Econ Policy Adv & Tax/IRS Subcmte Staff Dir | Sen. Thune: Sr Policy/Tax/Trade Policy Adv | Sen. Roberts: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Econ Policy Adv | Sen. Hatch: Dep Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv | Rep. Marchant: Leg Dir/Sr Policy Adv2 filingsthrough 2026
Tyler StephensFierce Government RelationsCovered position: Staff Assistant, Senator Isakson, Legislative Correspondent, Senator Chambliss, Legislative Assistant, Senator Chambliss, Professional Staff Member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,Senior Policy Advisor,Senate Select Committee on Intelligence2 filingsthrough 2025
Robert PowersAduston Consulting, LLC2 filingsthrough 2013
Covered positions · 10 of 13 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. The text is reproduced exactly as filed.
